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Movie review: Cars'
Tribune staff reporter2½ stars (out of four) It has been 20 years since the first Pixar creation made its debut; a short, called "Luxo Jr.," premiered at Siggraph, an annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques that attracts a very, ahem, particular...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Animation (genre), Cheech Marin, Vehicles, Sports
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Pixar Revs Up with 'Cars'
Zap2It.comPixar Animation Head John Lasseter, whose father was a Chevrolet dealership parts manager, had long hoped to make a movie about automobiles and car-culture, but the project didn't find its form until, at his wife Nancy's urging, the family took an...Tags: Animation (genre), Auto Racing, Vehicles, Gaming, Entertainment
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With 'Cars,' Newman Stays in the Race
Zap2It.comPaul Newman turned 81 this year. For decades, the Oscar-winning star seemed ageless, but on a muggy May afternoon in North Carolina, Newman seems a little tired, a little distracted, a little like an 81-year-old man. Packed into a small room with...Tags: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Pixar Animation, Vehicles, Sports
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'Cars' tops Annie Awards
A cocky race car that learns the wisdom of slowing down won the race for best animated feature Sunday at the 34th annual Annie Awards, honoring achievements in feature film and television animation.
"Cars," from The Walt Disney Co. and Pixar Animation...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Television, Animation (genre), Cartoons, Entertainment
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Animation drawing new respect in Hollywood
Times Staff WritersIn the beginning, there was Snow White. Walt Disney's lovely songbird made history in 1937, debuting in Hollywood's first movie-length cartoon. It was an instant creative and financial sensation. Today, 65 years later, her legacy will take center...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Toys, Television, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Animation (genre)
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A 'Spirited' victory for animé
The awarding of the best animated feature Oscar to "Spirited Away" represented not only a victory for writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, but also a reflection of the growing popularity and influence of Japanese animation, or animé, in America.
A fantasy-...Tags: DVDs and Movies, Animation (genre), Gaming, Entertainment, Chris Sanders
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Fall Movie Preview
The Hartford CourantBetween the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Diego Rivera, Lucy Liu, Murder, Peter Coyote
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'The Incredibles'
Times Staff WriterSix for six and counting. The streak goes on. In an unparalleled run powered by sheer inventiveness and a special kind of skill, Pixar Animation Studios, an organization that has yet to come up short with either the public or the critics, has done it one...Tags: Animation (genre), Comedy (genre), Cartoons, Entertainment, Indiana Jones (fictional character)
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'Monsters, Inc.'
Times Film CriticWho doesn't remember the scary monster in the closet, the heartless beast who terrorized us when we were small and very much alone? But where did it come from, how did it pass the time during off hours, and what was it doing in our closet in the first...Tags: Steve Buscemi, The Walt Disney Co., Toy Story (movie), Animation (genre), Gaming
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A Bug's Life
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 20, 1998 Computer-animated movies, like computers themselves, are only as clever and funny as the people who program them. What "A Bug's Life" demonstrates is that when it comes to bugs, the most fun ones to hang out with hang...Tags: Toys, Animation (genre), Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary, Brad Garrett
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The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday October 8, 1999 "The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story," a documentary by the artist's granddaughter, Leslie Iwerks, which opens today at the El Capitan Theater for a one-week run, offers viewers a rare look at one of the unsung...Tags: DVDs and Movies, The Walt Disney Co., Animation (genre), Cartoons, Entertainment
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Toy Story 2
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 19, 1999 Thirteen years have elapsed between the first Pixar film, an Oscar-nominated two-minute short about an adventurous lamp called "Luxo Jr.," and the current "Toy Story 2," the elaborate successor to one of the highest grossing...Tags: Jim Varney, Toys, Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Ash Brannon
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